Edna Stern began her studies in Israel with Viktor Derevianko, a student of Heinrich Neuhaus, continuing with Krystian Zimerman at the Basel Hochschule and with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Institute and at the Lake Como International Piano Foundation. Her recordings repertoire ranges from Bach to Barber, and is highly praised by critics, receiving such awards as Diapason d’Or, Diapason Découverte, Arte Best CD, Gramophone upcoming artist, and Sélection Le Monde. Her recent recording dedicated to Hélène de Montgeroult received a Critic’s Choice of the Year of the Gramophone Magazine and Choice of France Musique.

Edna Stern performs at prestigious halls and festivals such as the Philharmonie de Paris, Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Munich’s Hekulessaal, Paris’ Châtelet Theater, Moscow’s Music-House, Petronas in Kuala Lumpur and Musashino hall in Tokyo; performing in solo recitals and with orchestras.

Stern gives masterclasses all over the world, in such places as the CNSM of Paris, Rutgers University, and Tel-Aviv Zubin Mehta School of Music. Stern likes to collaborate with great artists of different fields, and has often worked with film and theater director Amos Gitaï, as well as Etoile/Leading principal dancer from the Paris Opera, Agnès Letestu. 

She has been a professor at the Royal College of London since 2009.

Teaching online: Given the world's situation, I've recently discovered teaching online. I soon realized that my students were gaining through this method a new perspective and understanding of what I was teaching. Before, when I was teaching in the classroom, I would often correct them by an explanation followed by an example of how to do it at the piano. It was often unclear to me, whether their improvement was due to a lucky imitation (that is sometimes easily forgotten after the lesson) or by a true understanding. Today my method is to explain with less examples at the piano, so that they understand the issues first intellectually. Their correction process is not based then on imitation anymore, but on finding their own way through their understanding. I usually ask the student to send me a video the day before the online lesson, which gives me time to prepare the lesson and build it by the topic's priority so as to create a general understanding of the piece itself, and then walk through more specifically on what needs to be done in order to improve the student's playing.
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